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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Severe loss of life has attended the first clash between the Bolsheviki forces and the Cossacks in the Moscow district, according to a Copenhagen dispatch. Advices received stated that, machine giins were used by both sides with telling effect. The Pctrograd press declares the battle took place between a large detachment of Bolsheviki troops and about 3,500 soldiers under General Korniloff. at Ta-manovka station, twenty-eight versts from Biol-gorod. The Bolsheviki government at. Petrograd claims the first success, stating that the forces loyal to General Korniloff and General Knledines were defeated in fighting. Ait explosion in a loading room of one of the buildings of the Bethelehem Steel Companys munitions plants in Wilmington, Del., which was felt eighteen miles away, set fire to a portion of the establishment yesterday. Chief of Police Jacobson of the plant was carrying a biasing case of shells from the building -when they exploded. His head was blown off. No one else was injured. For more than an hour after the fire started a barrage of shell fragments and shrapnel flew about the plant. Some of the shrapnel struck houses in the Dobbinsville section, a mile distant from the plant. Governor Cox of Ohio went over the heads of federal fuel administration officials yesterday and has taken the Ohio coal shortage problem in his own hands. The first move was to order solid trainloads of coal assembled and sent immediately to points in the state most seriously in need or fuel. The order is directly contrary to instructions of F. C. Baird. federal fuel administrator, in charge of the lakes coal pool of Cleveland, who refused by long distance telephone to sanction such action. Long lines of transports swarming with German re-enforcements were seen behind German lines on the northern British flank of the Cambrai sector yesterday. Great flocks of German planes endeavored unsuccessfully to prevent British aviators from searching out this information. Early yesterday the Germans developed a heavy gun fire on the British northern flank. Their concentration of air forces was the greatest the Germans have yet disclosed. Dr. Sidonio Paes, leader of the revolution in Portugal, has been made premier and foreign minister. Macliado Santos, who led the uprising of a year ago. has been appointed minister of the interior. The other iwrtfolios have been distributed as follows: Public instruction. Alfredo Magalhies; Justice, Moura Pinto; labor, Feliciano Costa; marine, Aresta Branco; commerce, Xavier Esteves; finance, Santos, Viegas; .colonies, Tamaguiiii Bar-boza. Representatives of all the Russian fronts are in Brest-Litov.sk to resume the armistice negotiations with the Germans. Lieutenant Colonel Fokkeh believes the Germans will make considerable concessions and will even consent to leave Moon Sound. The Germans have eliminated the demand that Russian troops leave Macedonia and France, because the Russian delegates said these armies are not under their control.
